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Dubai Financial Market profit plunges 69 per cent over oil worries
April 27th, 2015
The Dubai Financial Market, the UAE’s biggest stock exchange, said its first quarter profit slid 69 per cent as investor concerns over oil prices dampened trading volumes. The DFM, which makes most of its money on trading commissions, said net ...
Saudi bourse to open to foreign investors from June 15
April 17th, 2015
Saudi Arabia‘s market regulator said on Thursday that the opening of the kingdom’s stock exchange to direct foreign investors will take place on June 15. The Capital Markets Authority said in a statement that it will publish the final ...
Top 12 Media Myths on oil prices
April 13th, 2015
The upstream oil and gas industry is not a black hole. There’s no mystery wrapped in an enigma here. There are a lot of meetings with engineers, chemists and geologists. There’s a constantly evolving learning curve. And then there’s ...
Iran Moves Closer to Restoring Oil Exports on Nuclear Accord
April 3rd, 2015
Iran’s accord with world powers brings the OPEC member a step closer to restoring oil production that was cut by sanctions while leaving unresolved when it will happen. The preliminary agreement outlined Thursday signals the Persian Gulf nation may ...
Abu Dhabi’s FGB completes stake sale in brokerage
March 27th, 2015
First Gulf Bank, the second largest lender by market capitalisation in the UAE, has said a deal to sell its 45 percent stake in brokerage First Gulf Financial Services to an Abu Dhabi investment company has been completed. FGB, ...
UAE’s NBAD launches market-making on Abu Dhabi bourse
February 3rd, 2015
National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) officially began market-making – quoting buying and selling prices – on the Abu Dhabi stock exchange (ADX) on Tuesday, aiming to boost trading volumes. The bank, the largest lender by assets in the ...
Asia shares inch ahead, euro steady as Fed meets
January 27th, 2015
Most Asian share markets firmed on Tuesday and the euro clung to rare gains, relieved that European equities had weathered Greece’s election outcome without too much disruption. The main European indices were expected to open higher, though foul weather ...
Oil-Product Prices Fall as Supplies Climb
January 8th, 2015
U.S. Inventory Data Confirm the Market Is Still Oversupplied Prices at the gas pump are heading even lower. Gasoline futures fell to nearly a six-year low on Wednesday after U.S. government data showed oil and fuel supplies rising to ...
Asia shares edge higher, oil tumbles to four-year low
November 27th, 2014
Asian stocks hit a one-month high on Thursday as investors bet that more central bank stimulus in China and Europe would shore up the global economy, while oil prices tumbled to a four-year low as hopes for output cuts by ...
Bahrain fund Mumtalakat sets up $1bn bond, sukuk programmes
November 3rd, 2014
Bahraini sovereign fund Mumtalakat has set up separate bond and sukuk issuance programmes in the Irish stock exchange to raise as much as $1 billion, to help refinance maturing debt next year. One of the smaller sovereign wealth funds ...